Ancient Greek

Noun

πτέρνα • ‎(ptérna) f ‎(genitive πτέρνης); first declension

1. heel

   Aristotle, Historia Animalum 494a.11.

References

• πτέρνα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «πτέρνα» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “G4418”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • heel idem, page 394.

Greek

Noun

πτέρνα • ‎(ptérna) f ‎(plural πτέρνες)

1. Alternative form of φτέρνα ‎(ftérna)

Declension